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Heels 1962

[quotes from tramping trips]

Recently some tourists much embarrassed a young person of our acquaintance by their unconcealed admiration. They stopped their car and pointed the snout of a movie camera out the window at him as he was chopping wood by the roadside. He hung his head and flushed a deep red. It was with great difficulty that we persuaded him to continue . . .

A mouse which fell into a billy of water and drowned avenged itself by leaving its sodden corpse upon a rock on which one of our leaders later chose to sit. Not even the keas wanted it after that . .